Required Reading Antigone – Sophocles (Honors) Julius Caesar – William Shakespeare (All levels) Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck (All Levels) Recommended Reading – Fiction The Bean Trees – Barbara Kingsolver The Eyes of the Dragon – Stephen King Girl with a Pearl Earring - Chevalier The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck Frankenstein – Mary Shelley The Invisible Man – H. G. Wells The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan Life of Pi – Yann Martel Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad A Northern Light – Jennifer Donnelley Peace Like a River – Leif Enger Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd A Separate Peace – John Knowles Something Wicked This Way Comes – Ray Bradbury Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe The Time Machine – H. G. Wells Recommended Reading – Non-Fiction In the Heart of the Sea – Nathanial Philbrick Marley and Me – John Grogan The Perfect Storm – Sebastian Junger Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi (Graphic Novel) Riding the Bus with My Sister – Rachel Simon Seabiscuit – Laura Hillenbrand A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson When I was a Soldier--Valerie Zenatti High-Interest Reading
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian-
Sherman Alexie
Junior, fourteen, decides to make the iffy commute from his Spokane Indian reservation to attend high school in Reardan, a small town twenty miles away.
Being- Kevin Brooks
After finding out he is part machine, sixteen-year-old Robert Smith runs from the covert government agents who are trying to pin a murder on him.
Boy’s Life – Robert R. McCammon
After witnessing an accident, Cory and his father search for the truth about the incident, and they come face-to-face with the forces of good and evil in their hometown.
Deadline-Chris Crutcher
Given a year to live, high school senior Ben Wolf decides to fulfill his greatest fantasies, ponders his life's purpose and legacy, and converses through dreams with a spiritual guide known as "Hey-Soos."
Double Helix- Nancy Werlin
Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering.
The Five People You Meet in Heaven- Mitch Albom
A bitter eighty-three-year-old war veteran who believes his life is meaningless dies while trying to save a little girl and finds himself in heaven, where five people from his past explain what his years on Earth really meant, and whether or not he succeeded in saving the child.
Plain Truth – Jodi Picoult
A Philadelphia defense attorney leaves her job for a stay in Paradise, Pennsylvania, arriving just in time to become embroiled in the case of a young, unmarried Amish woman accused of killing her newborn baby.
The Road of the Dead- Kevin Brooks
Two brothers, sons of a gypsy, leave London traveling to an isolated and desolate village, in search of the brutal killer of their sister.
The She- Carol Plum-Ucci
After his parents are lost at sea, Evan Barrett and his older brother leave their seaside home in West Hook to escape bad memories, but years later even worse questions emerge when Evan is asked to help a fellow student deal with another sea-related tragedy.
Secret Life of Bees
Fourteen-year-old Lily and her companion, Rosaleen, an African-American woman who has cared from Lily since her mother's death ten years earlier, flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers, and find a safe haven in Tiburon, South Carolina, at the home of three beekeeping sisters, May, June, and August.
East of Eden
Steinbeck's semi-autobigraphical novel is amust-read for fans of Of Mice and Men.
Antigone – Sophocles (Honors)
Julius Caesar – William Shakespeare (All levels)
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck (All Levels)
Recommended Reading – Fiction
The Bean Trees – Barbara Kingsolver
The Eyes of the Dragon – Stephen King
Girl with a Pearl Earring - Chevalier
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
The Invisible Man – H. G. Wells
The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
A Northern Light – Jennifer Donnelley
Peace Like a River – Leif Enger
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
A Separate Peace – John Knowles
Something Wicked This Way Comes – Ray Bradbury
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
The Time Machine – H. G. Wells
Recommended Reading – Non-Fiction
In the Heart of the Sea – Nathanial Philbrick
Marley and Me – John Grogan
The Perfect Storm – Sebastian Junger
Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi (Graphic Novel)
Riding the Bus with My Sister – Rachel Simon
Seabiscuit – Laura Hillenbrand
A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson
When I was a Soldier-- Valerie Zenatti
High-Interest Reading
Sherman Alexie